Grid Poet — Live German Energy Grid Visualised

The German energy grid, interpreted through AI. A new painting every two hours.

Grid Poet — 27 August 2026, 22:00

67% renewable

Strong onshore wind leads at 25.9 GW; coal and gas thermal plants set a high clearing price despite 6.2 GW net export.

Grid analysis Claude AI

At 22:00 on a warm August night, wind generation dominates the mix at 30.9 GW combined (onshore 25.9 GW, offshore 5.0 GW), delivering roughly 56% of total generation alone. Thermal baseload remains substantial with brown coal at 7.3 GW, natural gas at 7.0 GW, and hard coal at 4.0 GW, collectively providing 33% of output. Total generation of 54.7 GW exceeds consumption of 48.5 GW, yielding a net export position of approximately 6.2 GW. Despite this surplus, the day-ahead price of 164.9 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a nighttime hour — this likely reflects high gas prices feeding through to marginal cost pricing, with gas-fired units still setting the clearing price even as wind output is strong.

Grid poem Claude AI

The turbines churn through sultry darkness, a restless armada of steel and wind claiming the overcast night. Below, the coal fires glow defiant, their ancient heat demanding a price the summer air cannot cool.

Generation mix

Wind onshore 48%

Wind offshore 9%

Biomass 8%

Hydro 2%

Natural gas 13%

Hard coal 7%

Brown coal 13%

67%

Renewable share

30.9 GW

Wind (on + offshore)

0.0 GW

Solar

54.4 GW

Total generation

+5.9 GW

Net export

164.9 EUR/MWh

Day-ahead price

24.2°C / 5 km/h

Temp / Wind speed

Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind

Grid data: 27 August 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time)

Carbon intensity

225 gCO₂/kWh

EU 2023
242

DE 2023
~380

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Now: 225 gCO₂/kWh EU 2023: 242 gCO₂/kWh DE 2023: ~380 gCO₂/kWh Today avg: 194 gCO₂/kWh

Direct operational emissions (combustion only). Wind · solar · hydro · biomass: 0 gCO₂/kWh. Lignite: 820 · Hard coal: 750 · Gas (CCGT): 490. Sources: UBA, IPCC AR6.

7-day renewable share 20h ago

Day-ahead price — 2026-08-27 + forecast 2026-08-28 click line name to show/hide

Residual load = consumption − wind − solar. It is the net demand that dispatchable plants — coal, gas, biomass, hydro, storage — plus cross-border exchanges must balance. When it is high, expensive thermal capacity is needed and prices rise with it. As residual load falls, wind and solar displace more thermal generation, pulling prices down. When it turns negative, wind and solar output alone exceeds all consumption: controllable plants ramp to their technical minimums, storage absorbs what it can, and the grid exports heavily — often with prices turning negative too.
Forecast (dashed): tomorrow's predicted DA price (P50 median) with P10–P90 uncertainty band. Full forecast →

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European day-ahead prices click market name to show/hide

EUR/MWh. GB: system price in GBP (balancing, not DA auction). Source: Energy-Charts, Elexon. Full markets dashboard →

Earlier readings Full archive →

27 August 2026, 20:00

Turbines hum their iron hymns across the darkened plain, while coal towers exhale pale ghosts into a starless August rain.

27 August 2026, 20:00

27 August 2026, 18:00

The turbines bow and sway beneath a bruised summer sky, their silver arms gathering the last breath of a restless August wind. Below, the cooling towers exhale their ancient carbon hymns, steadfast sentinels holding the grid while the sun descends into amber haze.

27 August 2026, 18:00

27 August 2026, 16:00

Beneath a leaden August sky the turbines turn and silicon fields drink hidden light, pouring rivers of power across every border. The old coal towers stand patient in the haze, their breath still rising though the green tide swells around them.

27 August 2026, 16:00

27 August 2026, 14:00

A golden flood pours from silicon fields, drowning the wires in light no grid can hold. The coal towers breathe on, stubborn sentinels in an empire already ceded to the sun.

27 August 2026, 14:00

27 August 2026, 12:00

A golden flood of silicon light drowns the grid in abundance, pushing power across every border like a river that has forgotten its banks. Beneath the broken clouds, cooling towers exhale their stubborn breath, sentinels of an age that refuses to set with the sun.

27 August 2026, 12:00

27 August 2026, 10:00

Beneath a sullen August sky the sun hides yet still commands, its diffused light flooding a million glass faces until the grid brims and spills beyond the borders. The old coal furnaces smolder on in stubborn rhythm, refusing to bow before the invisible sovereign above the clouds.

27 August 2026, 10:00

27 August 2026, 08:00

Beneath a leaden sky the turbines turn in silver ranks, drawing power from the restless air where sunlight dares not tread. Coal towers exhale their ancient breath into the grey, and the grid hums onward—overflowing, yet costly in its abundance.

27 August 2026, 08:00

27 August 2026, 06:00

Beneath a leaden sky the turbines turn their silent hymns, while ancient coal exhales its warmth into a dawn that will not come. The grid draws breath from distant shores, a kingdom half in shadow, half in wind.

27 August 2026, 06:00

27 August 2026, 04:00

Beneath a starless shroud the turbines carve their silent hymns into the August dark, while lignite towers exhale pale ghosts that merge with cloud. The grid hums taut with unseen wind, its price a fever burning where no dawn has yet arrived.

27 August 2026, 04:00

27 August 2026, 02:00

Beneath a starless vault of summer cloud, the turbines churn unseen — their harvest spilling past borders while lignite towers exhale slow plumes into the dark, trading warmth for coin in markets that never sleep. The grid hums with restless abundance, yet the price whispers of a dawn that will demand far more than the night can spare.

27 August 2026, 02:00

27 August 2026, 00:00

The turbines hum their tireless hymn across the August dark, while ancient lignite fires still glow beneath a sky of windswept stars. Surplus power flows outward like a river breaching its banks, yet the market's price burns hot — a paradox written in smoke and spinning steel.

27 August 2026, 00:00

26 August 2026, 22:00

The dark fields hum with turning blades, a wind-born chorus sweeping across the Rhineland's sleeping plains. Beneath the starless vault, coal furnaces glow like ancient forges, their amber breath the stubborn heartbeat of an empire in transition.

26 August 2026, 22:00

26 August 2026, 20:00

The turbines turn in darkened fields where wind commands the August night, yet coal fires burn beneath the towers to bridge what moving air cannot quite reach. Import cables hum across the borders, carrying borrowed light to a nation still hungry after sundown.

26 August 2026, 20:00

26 August 2026, 18:00

Beneath a leaden sky where no sun dares to break, the coal towers exhale their ancient breath while turbines claw at fading wind—a nation draws power from every source it can summon as dusk descends on the grid's taut wire. The price of light weighs heavy tonight, measured in smoke and spinning steel.

26 August 2026, 18:00

26 August 2026, 16:00

Beneath a sky sealed shut like hammered pewter, the silent panels drink what light the clouds allow, while lignite towers breathe their ancient breath into the August haze. The grid hums taut as a cello string — overflowing yet uneasy, exporting power into a continent that cannot get enough.

26 August 2026, 16:00

26 August 2026, 14:00

Beneath a leaden August sky the invisible sun still floods silicon fields with hidden fire, and the grid groans under its own abundance. Cooling towers breathe slow columns of white into the grey while turbine blades carve patience from a listless wind.

26 August 2026, 14:00

26 August 2026, 12:00

Beneath a lidless grey sky the panels drink what little light the clouds allow, yet still they flood the wires with more than any city can consume. The old coal towers exhale their pale breath into the overcast, stubborn sentinels refusing to yield the stage to a quieter age.

26 August 2026, 12:00

26 August 2026, 10:00

Beneath a leaden sky the panels drink what light the clouds reluctantly surrender, while coal towers exhale their ancient breath into the grey. Germany stands flush with power, yet the market's iron hand squeezes gold from surplus megawatts.

26 August 2026, 10:00

26 August 2026, 08:00

Beneath a leaden August sky the turbines turn in muted breath, while coal fires shoulder the burden that clouds have stolen from the sun. The grid calls across borders for the gigawatts its own hearths cannot furnish, and the market answers in the language of scarcity.

26 August 2026, 08:00

26 August 2026, 06:00

Beneath a leaden veil the turbines turn their slow devotion, while coal fires burn deep in the earth to feed a nation waking in the grey. The grid groans with the weight of imported current, and the price of dawn is paid in smoke and stone.

26 August 2026, 06:00

26 August 2026, 04:00

Beneath a starless vault of leaden cloud, turbines carve the darkness while coal furnaces glow red in patient toil—an empire of iron breath and invisible wind, feeding a sleeping nation's ceaseless thirst. The price of wakefulness is written in smoke and spinning steel.

26 August 2026, 04:00

26 August 2026, 02:00

Beneath a starless vault of cloud, the turbines turn their tireless hymn while coal-fire furnaces glow defiant, feeding a sleeping nation's iron veins. The wind owns half the darkness, yet the price of light burns hot as embers in August's restless hours.

26 August 2026, 02:00

26 August 2026, 00:00

Beneath a starless August vault the turbines carve the restless dark, while lignite towers breathe their ancient plumes into the coal-black sky. The grid hums its midnight arithmetic — surplus spilling across borders, yet the price of power burns as hot as buried seams.

26 August 2026, 00:00

25 August 2026, 22:00

Beneath a shroud of starless cloud, the turbines carve their tireless hymn while coal fires smolder in the deep — a nation's hunger fed by wind and flame in equal, uneasy measure. The price of light weighs heavy on the August dark, as if the sky itself demands its toll.

25 August 2026, 22:00

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